How Should We Respond to Health Care Generating Environmental Harm?
Amy Collins1, Shanda Demorest2
1Medical director for physician engagement and education at Health Care Without Harm.
Abstract:
Clinicians and organizations in the health sector have healing missions, and physicians, specifically, take oaths to "do no harm." Yet, paradoxically, health care operations contribute to pollution and exacerbate environmental disease burden. This article offers a view of how health sector actions exacerbate climate warming and iatrogenically harm global public health and argues that clinicians and organizations have ethical responsibilities to respond.
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